Another Week of Prayer

This week's prayer topic here in Asia is for the health and education of the people. There is limited access to both of these necessities.
The number of doctors compared to population is quite low here. (According to The World Bank website, the count in 2012 was one nurse per 1,000 people and about 0.6 doctors per 1,000 people.) Approximately half of the population will get diabetes during their lifetime. Health education appears to be on the rise, but has a long way to go.
This is the case with education in general. In the rural areas, many villages do not have their own schools past a certain grade. So if a child wants an education, he or she must travel to another town or live away from their family in a monastery or children's home. In the places where government schools are present, corruption is also present: teachers are not paid a livable wage and therefore charge extra tuition for the information necessary to pass each grade. Many public universities offer distance learning degrees where a student will study for two to three weeks, have a week of testing, and then earn a bachelor's degree. This satisfies the population's demand for accessible education while producing college "graduates" who are essentially uneducated.
Please join us this week as we pray for these broken systems, that God would heal and bless the people of this nation and that His followers would use every opportunity to do good.